It’s the highest-resolution video camera yet created, which means that a drone with the 1.8 gigapixel video surveillance system hovering nearly 20,000 feet in the air can track a six-inch object across an entire city.
Known as ARGUS, it can also archive the equivalent of some 5,000 hours of high-definition footage each day, experts say. That would enable the US government to create a giant, searchable video library to track a person or a moving object months, or even years, in the past.
Critics worry that it could create an Orwellian scenario in which every moment of a person’s life could be shadowed and logged.
